Jackson Jambalaya

CNN is already saying trump will win...God help us

CNN calls MS for Trump with a whopping 469 votes counted.

Is anyone really surprised Trump will win Mississippi? I'm not. For the record: white R voted for Kasich.

Are you ready for the Trumpening? It's coming.

https://youtu.be/I0tE6T-ecmg

Well, it is what it is. Trump is winning. Tonight is proof that the days of a few in MS telling other Republicans how they should vote is over.

When I heard Gov. Bryant supported Cruz I quickly changed my vote to Trump.

Well, our republicrat overlords told us Kasich is the man. And less than 10% of the "lemmings" in Mississippi listened to them. Looks like the era of big RINOs is over.

The 2012 GOP primary was won by Rick Santorum. That tells you everything you need to know about Mississippi Republicans.

SEnate race results in Jackson:

Michel: 3289
Billingsley: 1518

8/9 reporting

Madison:

Billingsley: 8027
Michel: 6241

14/14

totals:

Michel: 9,530
Billingsley: 9545

Kasich campaigned to party officials, not voters.

The day of the thinking voter is over in America. We have just a little while longer before the left takes whats remains of free speech, guns and religious freedom. People will be forced to worship the utopian idealogy until the well of the Rich runs dry...then anarchy. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

With the cluster**** that was today's Senate District 25 race and the tight vote margin, I think we can expect a do-over election in the near future.

Well thank god Walter won. Bill would hVe been a disaster

wow. Bill really did a good showing in Madison but not so well in Jackson...Oxford House must have really buried him going back to his last campaign. He should stick to Madison Co. if he wants to have any sort of a viable path forward.

Billingsley should have taken everyone's advice, not run against Longwitz, and instead run for Supervisor. He would have made a decent supervisor.

@KF, do you think that Kasich is doing that purposefully? He has little to no direct path to victory outside of the convention.

When I voted I saw some 50 billingsley signs and maybe 2 or 3 Michel signs at the precinct. So naturally I voted for Michel. Seemed more efficient and not a lot of waste.

I voted in ridgeland and didn't have the senators on my ballot...only the president and US rep O.o were they supposed to give you a diff ballot?

Walter and Bill both ran good races and, honestly, voters were lucky to have two options like them. Not every legislative race is so fortunate. However, the story on this one is the complete ineptitude of our elections officials, Secretary of State on down.... Inexcusable actions. Following Sara Fowler cover the count on Twitter showed how much of a Mickey Mouse operation this was.

7:56 PM "Is anyone really surprised Trump will win Mississippi? I'm not. For the record: white R voted for Kasich."

Sooooo, non-white R put Trump over the top? HaHa!

The people, not the republican party, gave Trump the win. The same people who have done so in the past and will do so in the future.
Politicians have in the past told the voters what they should do and think. Now someone is listening to the people. Politicians have no idea what the people want and do not care. They are paying for that.

KF 9:34 I disagree. Kasich didn't campaign in MS, particularly. He made one campaign stop (on the coast). There was a good organization of Republican officials in MS, but that was put together by them, not by the Kasich campaign. Other than the local organization and their work mostly with social media, there wasn't campaign effort.

So - while what you saw was the Republican leaders you mention, my disagreement is that the man didn't campaign here knowing it was going to be a Trump state. it appears that his campaign is focusing on states where there is not crossover voting (Trump has received a large amount of his vote from Dems that have no reason to vote in their primary) and in the mid-west states where Trump nor Cruz have their base.

For 1:00

Not all precincts in Madison County are in Senate District 25. Apparently you are in another district.

I went to vote and was asked where I live. They said I was not in the Senate District although I had voted in this race the last time. I called Delbert Hosemann's office this morning and spoke to an election attorney. I told her all the things that had happened at the Ridgeland Recreation Center when I went to vote, including how my paper ballot was put under the table by the poll worker. Not in a box, not in a sealed envelope, just put under the table as she started to talk to the next people in line.
Drivers license never checked, paper ballot never put in an envelope, nothing except shoved under the table. I called and spoke to the attorney and I told her that people had been campaigning heavily on my street and I asked her if my street was in the district to vote for the Senate race. She said it was, and I asked her if I had been denied the right to vote on Tuesday, and she said yes. The people at the Ridgeland Recreation Center did not know what they were doing and they should never be able to work the polls again. They were totally ignorant, and that is no excuse for what they did. Again, who is in charge of this?
They suggested I call the election commissioners and the circuit clerk's office, and that although they had received many complaints this morning, they could not do anything about it.

The people who work the polls do so for the opportunity to help their favorite politician. Most of the time the politician pays these poll workers for what they do for him.
Wake up, this is still Ms. Do you think there would be an honest election?

Find it interesting that Kingfish did not allow any comment on the Billingsly-Michel race until the day before the vote.

Oh, but he meant to. That was just accidental.

11:05; Billingsly could have run for supervisor in Madison County and won, but, first he would have had to move into a different district. He could not have defeated Sheila Jones. Could he have defeated John Howland? Perhaps. A resident at Oxford House could have won that election contest.

I heard today from a reliable source 4,000 + people in 5 precincts voted in the senate race that weren't in the district. Billingsley heavily won all the Madison precincts. The race was close enough that the outcome could have been dramatically different considering the mess up. The race still hasn't been officially called due to all the problems. Why aren't you on top of this KF?